Niina Hermansdohter

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Niina Hermansdohter
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High Commissioner of the Euclean Community
Assumed office
24 June 2019
Preceded byRasa Šalaševičiūtė
Member of the Euclean Parliament
In office
24 June 2009 – 24 June 2019
ConstituencyAzmara
Prime Minister of Azmara
In office
19 March 2008 – 29 April 2009
Preceded byStefan Aansgaarssun
Succeeded byFrei Alekssun
Minister for Healthcare
In office
27 November 2001 – 16 March 2005
Minister for Transport
In office
20 March 1996 – 27 November 2001
Personal details
Born
Niina Hermansdohter

(1957-02-20) 20 February 1957 (age 67)
Maancester, Azmara
Political partyWorkers'
SAE
Other political
affiliations
Third Republic (1975-1977)
SpouseAodhan Mac Pharláin
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Aalmsted

Niina Hermansdohter is an Azmaran politican who currently serves as the High Commissioner of the Euclean Community and was the Prime Minister of Azmara for a year between 2008 and 2009. Ideologically a social democrat aligned with the Third Way and the Sotirian left, she also served as a minister in the second, third and fourth purple cabinets between 1996 and 2005.

Early life and education

Hermansdohter was born on the 20th February, 1957 in Maancester, Groonbank, Azmara. Her father, Herman Freissun, worked as a fishmonger, while her mother, Ana Godrikssun, had worked at a cotton mill before retiring in 1952 to take care of Hermansdohter's older brother. Her maternal grandfather, Godric Inġesund, was a Buckish farmer and poet, having fled to the border town of Maancester in the late 1920's to escape the Gaullican invasion of Estmere in the Great War (Kylaris), later naturalising as a citizen after Azmara's withdrawal from the Entente.

Hermansdohter attended the West-Maancester Ândeskul for primary education, graduating the ÂSWP in 1971 and enrolling in the Maancester Gymnasium the same year. However, in 1972 when Hermansdohter was 15, her father's suicide after struggling with chronic depression left the family in a very precarious economic situation as their primary source of income had been wiped out and the family had to enrol in unemployment benefits for a few months before her mother could find new work at a laundrette.

This experience is one that Hermansdohter cites with inspiring her interest in politics, saying that while she had studied it at Gymnasium, this awakened her to "the effect that political decisions have on ordinary people's lives", and that seeing the inequality between her and middle-class peers at her Gymnasium "radicalised her".

She managed to graduate from secondary education with high grades in 1975, and was successful at applying for a place on the University of Aalmsted's Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree later that year. Hermansdohter has described her university-age self as a "raving socialist", noting her involvement in the Aalmsted-based vanguard communist Third Republic party during the first few years of her studies and her participation in numerous protests and demonstrations for left-wing domestic and international causes, yet says that under the influence of her demand-side and pragmatic economics and politics professors, she moderated towards positions more mainstream in the Azmaran left.

Early career

After university, Hermansdohter began an apprenticeship with an accountancy firm in her native Maancester, becoming a chartered accountant in 1979 and continuing in this role for a few years. However, she resigned from the position in 1983, citing a dissatisfaction with the work and a feeling her degree was not being adequately used.

Soon after, she started working for the Department of Pensions and Social Welfare, being responsible for processing welfare cases in the Province of Ostlaak, resulting in her moving from Maancester to Kyningsmer, the largest city in the province. Hermansdohter has cited this work, being responsible for processing welfare payments to many of the town's residents who had been made redundant as its coal industry started to go into decline, as prompting her to become interested in national politics again, having become disinterested after university. As a result, she became a member of the Workers' Party and started to become active in national politics.

In 1986 she switched government departments to the Department of Euclean Affairs, and as a result becoming involved in Euclean diplomacy, being on many Azmaran delegations to Euclean Community discussions, summits and conferences. Hermansdohter has cited this as being partially behind her Euclofederalist political positioning, saying that after experiencing first hand the work that the Euclean Community did and the importance of unity across the continent.

Early political career

Hermansdohter occupied the ninth place on the Workers' Party list in Ostlaak in the 1987 election, yet as the Workers' Party won eight seats she was unsuccessful in being elected to the Folksmot. However, despite the Workers' Party suffering a defeat in 1990, Hermansdohter was successful in her attempt to be elected, as the Workers' Party still won seven seats in Ostlaak and Hermansdohter occupied the sixth place on the provincial list.